Sam Worthington And Zoe Saldana Officially Signed On For Three More AVATAR Movies

While it was expected that both Sam Worthington (Terminator: Salvation) and Zoe Saldana (Guardians of the Galaxy) would be reprising their Avatar roles, it has now been confirmed that they will in fact be back for all THREE of them. Read on for details!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana have now finalised their deals to return for the next three Avatar movies. They join Stephen Lang, who was confirmed to be making a return (despite being killed in the first instalment of the 3D franchise) last year. Director James Cameron will be making all three movies back to back, while Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, and Shane Salerno were all drafted in a little while back to help him with the screenplays. Plot details are currently scarce, although the trade does say that Jake Sully and Neytiri, the characters played by Worthington and Saldana, have kids in the sequel. Avatar 2 is set to be released in December, 2016, with the other two following in 2017 and 2018.

If they plan on shooting all three back to back, and the first isn't scheduled until December 2016, I don't see it getting in the way of a potential GotG 2. That would have to arrive at 2017 if not 2018 the earliest.

oh man not a fan of sam worthington, i actually wasnt a fan of the first avatar before it seemingly become cool for people to hate on it, sure visually, it was great and appealing but the story was just bleh imo, i like saldana and im excited to see her as Gamora

also,lets see how Guardians of the galaxy owrks out before we start talking about a sequel

The first Avatar was a true breakthrough in terms of effects and imagery. It deserved to be a huge hit based on that alone. However, the story itself kinda sucked. It was just typical, PC save the environment, businessmen & corporations are evil liberal nonsense. I just cannot see the sequels coming close to equaling the first. The effects and 3D breakthrough has already happened, so you won't have people watching the movies just for that. And I don't think the characters have the same kind of following that Star Wars characters, or comic book heroes have. So unless they come up with a truly amazing, original story, or some new technical breakthrough, I don't see them being huge hits. And them bringing the colonel back shows me that they may have already jumped the shark. The first will probably have a huge opening weekend, but unless they have a better story, I don't see billions happening.

Yes, Fergully 2, er, I mean Avatar 2 the we nuke the site from orbit and call it even. I guess ol Cameron does it for the challenge. Surely he doesn't need any more money. Still would have preferred a movie about the colonial marines-ones that aren't engaged in deforestation.

mmm zoe saldana. yummy goodness.
amazing track record: the losers, colombiana, stra trek 1 & 2, avatar, and gaurdians of the galaxy coming up. loved every one of these (well, obviously i havnet seen gotg, but it looks like its gonna be awesome)and can't wait for more zoe. and she sure isn't hard on the eyes. so much win.

I don't think Avatar was saying businessmen and corporations were evil.Rather,I thought that it was saying they were amoral and so focused on the bottom line (i.e. making money) that considerations about the environment or a native population would take a back seat to the forces of "progress"

Its not "Liberal nonsense" to point out that since the days of the first global corporation,(The East India Company)that a lot of evil things have been done by colonial powers,run by good men,trying to build a better future.

It took the lives of millions of slaves and native peoples to develop North America.It also took the lives of millions of asians destroyed by opium addiction to open the far east to the west.

In the end,that bloodshed was worth it to build the modern world,but its not pleasant to think about.

Likewise,American intervention in the middle east could also be looked upon as on one level motivated by good reasons and on another as a license to exploit an underdeveloped part of the planet in the name of "Progress"

Maybe thats why the first film hit such a cord among Americans because Cameron held the mirror up to our faces and we didn't like what was looking back at us.

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